Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources

[M14 Shooter]

"Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source says.
As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/int...isis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273
One problem: the story is false.

"As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists," the statement said."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/int...isis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273

‘NO SUCH PRODUCT' EXISTS: The ABC News report, which alleged that 2019 intelligence depicted an “American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home,” sent Pentagon officials scrambling to find the report in question."
“NCMI and the Defense Intelligence Agency spent considerable time over the last 24 hours examining every possible product that could have been identified as related to this topic and have found no such product,” said a defense official last night.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ataclysmic-coronavirus-pandemic-last-november

Now, why would ABC run a story like this w/o confirmation?
Why would ABC bury the information that disproves the story at the bottom, rather than drawing attention at the top?
Why would ABC not simply pull the story?

I'll go with:
- ABC wants Trump to lose
- ABC knows their throngs of useful idiots will grab this and repeat this all over the internet, either oblivious to the fact it is false, or not caring.

There's no bias in the media.

 

[MindWars]

Because ABC LIES
Less than a Week After CBS was Caught Running Footage from Italian Hospital in their New York Hospital Report... They Do It Again!

 

[depotoo]

Defense official says media reports about November coronavirus intel assessment are false

A defense official on Wednesday issued a rare denial of reports by ABC News and others that claimed a November intelligence assessment warned about a rapidly spreading coronavirus in China that posed a threat to American forces in the region.

www.foxnews.com

 

[blackhawk]

The media got something wrong.